Originally Posted by Bionicycle

I like to ride a bike, and I like pie. Plus I'm only a few months shy of being 50 (Nov). This sub forum seemed like a perfect fit to me. I have many of the health problems that older people suffer from, and probably more than many older folks in this forum have. Personally I don't think I could care any less about what bikes the rest of you ride, or how fast you can go, or how many miles you put on a bike in any given time span, or what type of tire and wheels and so on; other than to be gracious, or polite, and give credit where credit is due. If you are out there enjoying yourself, I think it's fantastic...

I guess what I kind of envisioned the 50+ forum is being a gathering place for all bicycle riders/cyclist from all the other sub forums, gathering together in the 50+ forum, with the only thing they have in common is the fact that they are 50 or older, and discussing the issues/problems that come with that distinction. But, of course I'll be the first to admit that I wouldn't want it to just become a forum where people just talked about there health problems all the time either.

I had hoped that all the my dogs better than your dog stuff would be left in the other sub forums... Leave us face it; there are fewer and fewer older bicycle riders every day. The plain honest truth is, the older you get the harder it is to ride, and the more likely you are to have health problems arise, both from age and sometimes from the riding itself. I had hoped that this forum would be a good source of information as to how to overcome some of these obstacles, and a good data base on what kind of equipment might work for any given situation. Not just what gets you from point A. back to point A. as fast as you can go... If I want to only know about that, I'll lurk in the road forum.

So... I guess in conclusion I'll say that there are no easy answers for a sub forum this complex, but then again I like to post in about 5 other sub forums also... and at the end of the day... I just like to ride my bike, if this web site fell off the face of the earth, it wouldn't change that fact.